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Philipsturg, Quebec Sunday Sep 17 1929
Left Dorel at 8.30 and at about 11 A.M. we are in
St. Lambert. Then started for Philipsturg where we
arrived at 12.45. Put up again at the Champlain Hotel
and found Mr. One Serifile here, and as well Dr. Clarke
of the Rice, he having arrived last night.
In the afternoon we examined the Loma Canadian
(= Mallet) or thrusts on the Beclmantown. The surface of
the latter is a very irregular one with ridges and hollows
on which the Mallet moved and proceeded either apart of
itself but more generally the Beclmantown as gone from
one foot near in depth to about 20 feet. In places it looks
as if one had an alternation of Beclmantown and Mallet, but
the actual occurrence is that the Mallet lies in hollows of
the Beclmantown or are outlines of the original sheet of the
Mallet not yet eroded away. The contact plane can
be followed over many hundreds of feet.
Some of the surfaces of the Mallet look like a cleft,
but this appearance is due to a cross deposit in the lumps
every separated by a different material that on weathering
is accentuated into a darker sandin color and nature.
Then looked at the Minisoguri shore northeast of Becl-
mantown or the Trenton shales having gullied along a formation